A real CPM schedule
Your estimate becomes a logic-linked critical-path schedule you can open in
Primavera P6 (.xer), Microsoft Project, or as a Gantt — with
11×17 print-ready PDFs.
Primavera P6
.xer and MS Project out
Quick XERs from the estimates you already have.
Hand Big State AI the estimate in whatever form it's in — an Excel table, a PDF, a
plain-language description — and get back a real, logic-linked CPM schedule in the
native file your tools import: Primavera P6 (.xer) and
MS Project. Run against DCMA-style checks, with a Basis of Schedule.
What it does
The step between your estimate and your .xer
The estimate already holds the job. Big State AI reads it — Excel, PDF, or a plain-language description — and returns a working CPM schedule with the documentation a reviewer expects, then helps you keep it current month after month. Refine it in your own tools; P6 and MS Project stay the system of record.
Documentation, written for you
Every schedule ships with an auto-documented Basis of Schedule and a plain-language narrative — the story of the job, already written down.
Update it monthly
Mark progress, move the data date, preview the reforecast, and export the owner's package — look-ahead views, an executive summary, and a field-ready progress sheet. Set a baseline and see slip at a glance.
Quality checks built in
DCMA-style health checks — open ends, constraints, float, logic — with one-click fixes. Your judgment stays the final word.
Coming next: picture and Word-document intake, and activity codes and resource assignments pulled from your company template dictionaries. These are being built — they are not available today.
How it works
Three steps, start to export
Bring the estimate
Upload the Excel estimate or takeoff, a PDF, or an existing .xer to use
as a reference — or just describe the job. Scope, milestones, and the constraints
you already know.
Generate the draft
It builds a draft CPM schedule plus the Basis of Schedule and narrative to go with it, run against DCMA-style health checks.
Review, revise, export
Adjust durations and logic — a built-in assistant answers questions as you go — then export to Primavera P6, MS Project, or a Gantt for your team.
See the output
Real schedules, real documents
Generated by Big State AI from fictional scopes — watermarked as a first draft
for scheduler review. Every package also includes the native Primavera P6
(.xer) and MS Project (.xml) files.
Real schedules, four kinds of work
The reports that come with them
One coherent package for the commercial warehouse above — the documentation generated alongside the schedule, and the monthly update that keeps it current.
A professional first draft — not the final word
Big State AI produces a professional first draft. Activities, logic, durations, and dates are generated from your inputs plus assumptions and exclusions — not all of which appear in the output.
It's not a certified deliverable — every schedule needs review and certification by a qualified scheduler before any use or submission. P6 remains the authority on calculated dates. We build that into the product on purpose — it's how good schedules get made.
Who's behind it
Built by a project controls professional
17+ years of Primavera P6 baselines, with PMP and PSP certifications. Our founder learned the craft from mentors who drew schedules on paper and ran the forward and backward pass by hand; that hand-me-down judgment is what Big State AI encodes.
Who it's for
Built for the scheduler's daily reality
Schedulers, planners, and PMs already have the estimate — what costs them the week is typing it into P6. Big State AI does that first build, so your time goes to the logic, the durations, and the judgment calls only you can make.
Get started
Put it on your next estimate.
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